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Category: Echo Rewind
Local history with Monica McGill: River Camac can’t cope with what may be ahead
CLIMATE change is causing more frequent and larger floods, affecting Ireland’s rivers, low-lying areas and coastal regions. In recent years particularly, higher ...
History with Monica McGill: Councillors’ powers are limited and still remain so
AMONGST other matters requiring our votes, there’s a Local Election to our County Council (SDCC) on June 7. Voters are the backbone ...
History with Monica McGill: Tully’s Castle built to protect against unwelcome incursions
LEAVE Clondalkin’s Main Street behind and walk up Monastery Road. Opposite Castle Park roadway there’s a square tower - Tully’s Castle. It’s ...
History with Monica McGill: Residents caring about our built heritage are dismayed
“WHAT we have here is failure to communicate.” - a famous line from the 1967 American film “Cool Hand Luke”. Actor Martin ...
Local history with Monica McGill: How people spend all their money has certainly changed
In the space of a lifetime, Ireland’s currency has gone from pounds to punts to euros. In the era of our pounds ...
History with Monica McGill: First patent for typewriter taken out in 1714
ONCE upon a time in the office, this article was first produced on a laptop computer. However, typists, journalists and writers of ...
Monica McGill: Time to make the most of our past and enrich our future
January starts the new year, hopefully with feelings of fresh beginnings and positive intentions bolstered by the good will of Christmas. The ...
Monica McGill: The time of year to make choices and buy carefully . . .
CHRISTMAS is a joyful and exciting time when most people give and receive good wishes and presents. However, the weeks before Christmas ...
Monica McGill: Viking settlement established by King Olaf the White
Clondalkin is different now from long ago. Modern living conditions, the services we expect and enjoy were not available then. Our way ...
Monica McGill: ‘Woodman, spare that tree – touch not a single bough!’
REGULAR readers of The Echo may recall Maurice Garvey’s recent article “Criticism over the felling of ‘iconic’ Monterey Cypress tree” published in ...